Monday, December 5, 2016

Kinder Morgan Pipeline Might Be Canada’s DAPL

"The fight will soon be over Kinder Morgan." (Photo: Mark Klotz/flickr/cc)

In the end, Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, for all his suave talk of being a new progressive
politician, who would era in a new type of politics, turned out
disappointingly to be like all the rest. His suit is cut from the same
old cloth.

And like a classic politician he spoke in
Orwellian terms of fighting climate change, and promising clean air,
water and wilderness whilst approving Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain
pipeline that we know will exacerbate climate change, will impact air
quality and lead to a massive increase in tanker traffic that will harm
wildlife.

Contorting the definition of words, he
said that Canada was still a “climate leader” and added: “Canadians
value clean air and water, beautiful coasts and wilderness and refuse to
accept that they must be compromised to create growth. We agree.”